Ngo Dinh Can

Ngo Dinh Can (1911-9 May 1964) was the younger brother and confidant of South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem. He was executed a year after the 1963 South Vietnamese coup.

Biography
Ngo Dinh Can was the fifth of six children born into a prominent Vietnamese Catholic family, and he was the younger brother of Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu. During the 1940s and 1950s, he organized support for his brother Diem during the First Indochina War, and he eliminated alternative nationalist opposition in central Vietnam and became warlord of the region during his brother's rule as President. In 1963, he was responsible for the massacre of nine Buddhist demonstrators who rallied to protect the display of the Buddhist flag, and he was arrested by the CIA during the 1963 South Vietnamese coup and handed over to the coup plotters. He was tried and executed in 1964.